Urban Mobility Project

Bike Snob Gets Bent!

shelly — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:21:59 +0000

Last week I took Grant Petersen owner of Rivendale Bicycles and author of a great new cycling book “Just Ride” out for a ride through Manhattan streets up to Central Park. Little did I know he had a date with the Snob himself. He asked if he could borrow one of my bents ,so off he went to meet the Snob on a Rans Tailwind Recumbent..check out the blogs!

Bike Snob Gets Bent?

http://rivbike.tumblr.com/

Is it real or Photoshop?

The Bike Snob Blog…

http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2012/05/this-just-in-headed-abroad.html

Human Powered Humans of New York

shelly — Thu, 10 May 2012 03:31:47 +0000

From “Humans of New York” Facebook Page!

I was walking across the Brooklyn Bridge when I noticed this missile coming toward me at a very high speed. In the hope of providing my Facebook Group with a fleeting moment of aesthetic pleasure, I disregarded all concern for my life and planted myself directly in the missile’s path. Luckily the missile veered away at the last moment. As it passed, the rider shouted these words: “COO COO! CAH CAH! WOO HOO!” — with what is this??

Human Powered Machines!

shelly — Sat, 05 May 2012 23:48:04 +0000

Jan asked that I post this for him.I bought one of his bikes years ago when I was a in the Bike Messenger/Trucking Biz. Moving trucks around NYC was just a nightmare so I gave the Long Haul Cargo a try and never looked back!

If you want to learn the skill of building these amazing machines here’s your chance!

Family of Cycling!

shelly — Fri, 04 May 2012 00:46:49 +0000

Wow, I past this family on the bike-way at west 30th street this morning.I had to turn around and get a few pictures.I don’t know where they’re from and didn’t want to start asking a million questions,so I just took a few pictures for you guys! They were waiting and waiting and waiting to cross.

They thought there’d be a bicycle signal!

I had to rescue them

Waiting to cross the West Side Hiway

He's really checking me out!

On the way to Central Park exiting the bikeway west 30th street NYC

Mobile Media Magic – Adbikes Roll Over NYC!

shelly — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:38:38 +0000

Urban Mobility Adbikes at Tribceca Film Festival Street Fair

Everyone is always happy to see us cruzin around NYC streets!

click image to see it full size

Urban Mobility Project-Cycling Media!

One Bike Limit ???

shelly — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:23:32 +0000

Wow Gateway Plaza announced a one bicycle Per tenant….or Two per couple limit!

With NYC doing everything it can to promote cycling in every way possible this seems kind of absurd. Just another fight to be car free in NYC! I have many different bikes all for different purposes Road,Cargo,City Cruiser,Child carrier, Tandem ,Trail a bike, My wife has two bikes, my son has two bikes whats the big deal, we use them all!

I have to wonder why it seems such a problem for so many.Yea there are lots of abandon bikes all over the place so get rid of em and make room for people that ride on a daily basis! I’ve made several attempts to take over the racks and make them more usable and orderly with no response from management!

New York is a great cycling city and all but as cycling becomes more and more popular the opposition seems to get stronger and stronger!

Riding a bicycle use to be so simple!

BTW..The mess of Black Cars parked all day long all over the place – doing nothing but waiting ,don’t seem to bother anybody!

Why are bicycles so threatening!

Disturbing

Hypercycling in Manhattan

shelly — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:35:04 +0000

Spotted this old old model Hypercycle locked up on 9th ave and 25th Street.As I was taking the photo the owner came out. We chated for a bit and he told me that recumbent’s are much safer in NYC traffic!

Great looking Recumbent Smirk!

Hypercycle

I already knew that!

Down & Out In Battery Park City

shelly — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:05:07 +0000

W0W!

Bike thief’s stop at nothing. With all the security in BPC right in broad daylight!

The Urban Brute out of commission, just a horrible sight….

Good Idea!

shelly — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:47:20 +0000

I always have lots of good ideas that I usually see in the real world at some point. Here’s one that found me at Manhattan Mini Storage on Vandam Street in NYC.

I’ve starred wheelchairs up and down many times wondering if I could use one to make a cargo trailer after all they carry like 250lbs around no problem and fold in a flash.

Well a Soho artist showed up with his home made ,custom wheelchair trailer right in the elevator with me, of course I thought this was magnificent!

Only got one photo ,but he showed me pages and pages of sketches of trailers.I gave him my card , hope he contacts me!

Now this is Re-Cycling….if you look closely you can see the arm rests on the left!

Away from it all

shelly — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:33:58 +0000

Wow…The East River Bikeway is great. We needed to find some space in NYC to hit baseballs around for a school science experiment.I thought we should try the East-side, so off we went on our first family bike ride of the season.

After the congestion and all the new rules and regulations of Battery Park City this was like we found GOLD!

Nobody on the field?

Holy crap run for it!

Hard to believe!

We were getting hungry, I remembered this really cool old diner style restaurant in Southbridge Towers on Water St.

Great idea…normal looking neighborhood people no security anywhere and not one tourist!

Very laid back

Our New Get-a-way!